# Botticelli 2009!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [January 8, 2009, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311 "2009-01-08T00:42:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 7

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/121 "2009-01-09T09:37:31Z")

</div>

I am non-European, alive and non-fictionnal.

I am not James Dean  
I am not the Daredevil  
I am sports illiterate and wish the damn stats and teams and goddamn tables would stop, but I’m not Alfredo DiStefano 🙂

ETA : sorry seodoa, I am not Dido

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![seodoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@seodoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seodoa)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/122 "2009-01-09T09:44:19Z")

</div>

> [@Kobal2](#):
>
> ETA : sorry seodoa, I am not Dido

Ohhh, nice. I hadn’t even thought about her.

Okay, let me rephrase it:

Did you become a famous pop star after changing your name that started with a D to one that doesn’t?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/123 "2009-01-09T09:46:56Z")

</div>

How about a Portuguese who has won the Champions League two times for different clubs 😉

Are you a member of a comic book bandit gang?

Did you found a tobacco company?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/124 "2009-01-09T09:57:47Z")

</div>

ha HA ! Took me long enough, but my google-fu reigns supreme. I am not Reginald K. Dwight, a.k.a. Elton John

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/125 "2009-01-09T10:03:36Z")

</div>

You´re using Google? In that case I need to mask my questions even more 😉

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/126 "2009-01-09T10:08:25Z")

</div>

I hate you, I really do. But I’m not Deco.

DQs for the other two though.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![seodoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@seodoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seodoa)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/127 "2009-01-09T10:11:47Z")

</div>

> [@Kobal2](#):
>
> ha HA ! Took me long enough, but my google-fu reigns supreme. I am not Reginald K. Dwight, a.k.a. Elton John

Oh, drat, you got me. I was actually thinking of Arnold George Dorsey, who would later become Engelbert Humperdinck. But Sir Elton is way better. 🙂

Okay, did you famously paint a bare-breasted Marianne?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/128 "2009-01-09T10:15:41Z")

</div>

I am not Delacroix.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/129 "2009-01-09T10:19:18Z")

</div>

Davidoff, for the tobacco and pick one of the Dalton brothers in Lucky Luke for the gang 🙂

DQ1: Are you male?  
DQ2: Are you a politician?

Did you design a keyboard layout?  
Did you write a symphony hailing a new world?  
Have you played the most football caps for your nation? 😃  
Are you a former captain of your national team that won two major titles? 😃 😃

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![seodoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@seodoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seodoa)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/130 "2009-01-09T10:21:01Z")

</div>

Are you a Canadian Mountie whose true love is more interested in his horse (named Horse, of course) than she is in him?

ETA: **WormTheRed** , wow, you’re all over this, aren’t you!

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/131 "2009-01-09T10:22:43Z")

</div>

I am non-European, non-fictionnal, alive, male but not a politician

I’m not Dvořák  
I’m not Dvořák either, only not the same.  
Die in a fire.  
Die in a fire while stabbed with a chainsaw 😃

And take two DQs, of course.

ETA : I’m not Dudley Do-Right

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![seodoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@seodoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seodoa)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/132 "2009-01-09T10:33:12Z")

</div>

Did you embarrass yourself and your _h_andler by uttering a foul word at the Ascot Racecourse?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/133 "2009-01-09T10:36:39Z")

</div>

Hmm I’m not Eliza Doolittle ?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![seodoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@seodoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seodoa)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/134 "2009-01-09T10:43:18Z")

</div>

> [@Kobal2](#):
>
> Hmm I’m not Eliza Doolittle ?

**D** rat. :mad:

Do people tend to sing hello to you? Especially if you vow to never again leave?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/135 "2009-01-09T10:47:35Z")

</div>

Well, I have to do something while I’m bored at the office 😉

So you’re neither Iran’s top capper Ali Diae nor former French captain Marcel Desailly 😃

(you’re non-asian as well right? as per post 107)  
DQ: Are you a movie star?  
DQ: Are you younger than 40?

Well, since you seem to love sports sooooo much 😃 (now where is that horny devil smiley when you need it?)

Are you presently playing for Real Madrid 😃  
Are you a Greek football star 😃 😃

Ok, enough teasing…

Did you write a book about an idiot?  
Are you a short actor?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![seodoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@seodoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seodoa)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/136 "2009-01-09T10:51:03Z")

</div>

> [@WormTheRed](#):
>
> Are you a short actor?

I love your guesses, **WormTheRed**. 😃

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/137 "2009-01-09T11:01:35Z")

</div>

I’m not Asian, a politician, fictional, younger than 40  
I am male, alive and a movie star.

I’m not Lassana Diara  
I’m not Nikos Dabisas  
You should still roast in some circle of Hell, somewhere 🙂  
I’m not Dostoievsky  
I’m not Warwick Davis (played the peck in Willow and R2-D2. Can’t get shorter 'n that 🙂 )

seodoa, you get a DQ though.

EDIT : my mistake - he actually played an Ewok, not Artoo. Still.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/138 "2009-01-09T11:08:03Z")

</div>

Did you play the shorter twin in a movie?  
Did Sarah Silverman want to have intercourse with you?

ETA: I could jump into a local volcano if you’d want me to?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/139 "2009-01-09T11:09:17Z")

</div>

I’m not Danny DeVito  
I’m not fucking Matt Damon

ETA : Please do so at your earliest convenience.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![seodoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@seodoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seodoa)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/140 "2009-01-09T11:13:40Z")

</div>

Dolly, from the musical “Hello, Dolly.” 😃

DQ: Are you a Hollywood star?

Has a character you’ve played ever employed small cacao-bean-loving men?

ETA: I’ve got a local 'cano too, but I promise not to make sports-related guesses.

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311.md?page=6)

[Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311.md?page=8)
